This book is a hands-on manual for crafting and conducting useful experiments in real-life settings.

USA Today BestsellerIn his sixth business book, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investor Gary Vaynerchuk explores the twelve essential emotional skills that are integral to his life?and business?success and provides today's (and tomorrow's) leaders with critical tools to acquire and develop these traits.For decades, leaders have relied on ?hard? skills to make smart decisions, while dismissing the importance of emotional intelligence. Soft skills like self-awareness and curiosity aren't...

Business valuation is one of the toughest classes in any business curriculum. Breaking down business valuation methods into easy-to-digest parts, this self-teaching guide provides various skills you need to determine a company's worth. It offers insight from both buyers' and sellers' points of view and provides examples and exercises.

Financial measures are critical for business success and if you're a manager, for your career. That may scare some people. But here's the good news: there is a relatively small number of essential management ratios with which you can measure any aspect of business performance you need to. If you can master these, you will have a firm grip of business finance and need never be put off by the numbers again. Key Management Ratios cuts straight to the measures that matter. It shows you what they...

Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes prophesied that by the century's end, technology would see us all working fifteen-hour weeks. But instead, something curious happened. Today, average working hours have not decreased, but increased. And now, across the developed world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services or admin, jobs that don't seem to add anything to society: bullshit jobs. In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber explores how this phenomenon - one more associated with the 20th...

In 1999, legendary venture capitalist John Doerr invested nearly $12 million in a startup that had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. Doerr introduced the founders to OKRs and with them at the foundation of their management, the startup grew from forty employees to more than 70,000 with a market cap exceeding $600 billion. The startup was Google.

Since then Doerr has introduced OKRs to more than fifty companies, helping tech ...

Humans aren't a resource to be bought, used and discarded - they are the point of the workplace, the life essence of innovation, growth and success."

From the bestselling author of Purple Cow and This Is Marketing comes an urgent manifesto for leaders facing unprecedented challenges in a rapidly-changing workplace.

The workplace has undergone a massive shift. Remote work and economic instability have depressed innovation and left us disconnected and disengaged. Paychecks no longer buy loyalty...

Reverently known among fragrance industry insiders as "le monstre" - the monster - Chanel Number 5 is arguably the most coveted consumer luxury product of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This title uncovers the story of Number 5's creation, iconic status, and extraordinary success.

A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better results. We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders.

Health operations management is defined as 'the analysis, design, planning, and control of all of the steps necessary to provide a service for a client'. In other words, it is concerned with identifying the needs of clients, usually patients, and designing and delivering services to meet their needs in the most effective and efficient manner. Addressing this key healthcare industry challenge, this informative textbook crosses geographical boundaries to outline the logical steps of health oper...